Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-12-20
F igures Never Lie.
Shippers OF Sheep Defrauded of
$780, 900 over-charge During
the Year
BY the Unjust Discrimination
Exercised by the Union
Stock Yards People.
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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SHEEP.
ny the Chicago Union Stock Yards CON-
lpany Discussed.
Editor YrLLowsToEr JOURNAL:
The sheep men VI Montana have
had . reasonably prosperous season.
IL 10 true wool is low but mutton has
improved In price. aud altogether the
sheep Industry is 10 more prosperous
condition than for the past few years
and the approach ofthe year 1858 finds
the Montana sheep men In better con.
ditiOn TO enter the winter than ever
before. They have sufficient hay 10
subsist their flocks upon during II q
winter: They are prepared with
warm sheds TO protect their flocks
from the rigors Of the winter and ma.
turs has provided . bountiful supply
OF nutritious grasses for the fi,cks to
Craze upon. Asa rule the sheep men
are prosperous and happy. The old
habit Of winteriDg sheep with bed
ground In some coulee or thickst OF
brush 10 rapidly passing away and to-
day IL Is not uncommon to see fine
sheep barns on the ranches in Monta.
ma. Railroad companies have at last
provided US with double deck sheep
cars to transport our mutton to east.
ern markets. The American people
are rapidly becoming . mutton-eating
people; . nice, juicy roast Of mutton 10
an Indispensable article to the table Of
the good.liveis both east aud west.
Nice, broiled mutton chops are no
longer luxury only to DO found on
the bills Of fare Of nrst class hotels but
are on the bills Of fare Of all hotels. l
might mention here that Montana
mutton in the east Is rapidly becoming
. favorite. There still exsists glar.
Ing injustice to this business, which II
taken up and ventilated by all the
sheep associations OF the central and
western states aud territories, and
forcibly brought TO the notice OF the
proper parties. can In . measure be
remstied: I speak Of the over.
charge and Determinations against
mutton in the great UnionStock Yards
OF Chicago. A car load Of cattle, con-
tsiaing twenty beeves, can enter the
Union Stock Yards aud receive the
benefits of the market and charged
but five dollars yardage; . car load OF
eheep ,oftwo hundred head, weighing
Just about the same that the beet
weighed and representing n moLey
value about the same rs the twenty
beeves, enters the yards and receives
the benefit Of the market and are
charged sixteen dollars yardage. or u
fraction over three times ss much as
10 charged the beef shippers. Now,
for illustration, take one days run Of
sheep In November; ten thousand
sheep on the market; yArdage EIGHT
HUNDRED DOLLARS: Now as COM
pared with cattle, take two.thirds Of
eight hundred dollars, which equals
$3.50 33. which represents the charge on
sheep,for one day ~ compared with cat.
tie. To furtherl Illustrate this principle,
supposiDg theIe were ten thousand
head Of sheep each market day 10 the
year or three million sheep on the mar
ket at the Union Stock Yards during
the year, then the over charge on
sheep, as compared with cattle.
amounts to the enormous sum Of $3.50 =
800. Further take the actual shipment
of well known Montana shipper,
80, 900 head, and he IL only one among
many Others. Thirty thousand sheep
represents $50 car loads and 81. $50 over
charge, Q very neat little sum. Who
suffer, by this over charge, or robbery,
for / cannot term It anything else? II
is not loss; for II goes to swell th,
already large receipts Of the Urion
Stock Yards Company. will tell you
who In injured by this systemati.
robbery: 1t Is the rsnchman; the
mutton producer; the individual who
invests bis money In ranches and
fiocks on the great plains Of the ives =
and on the upper regions lying along
the base OF the Rocky mountains, and
other portions Of the south aud west,
Texas, Montana. Colorado. New Mex
leo, Wyoming, Washington territory,
Oregon and Utah. all pay large tribute
to the Union Stock Yards Company
as well as various other states; the
men who isolate themselves. for the
sake.of their interests and ~ gain
competeDce for themselves aud those
dependent on them; the men who de-
prive themselves Of q great many ad'
vsntages Of society; the men who toll
IN the hot July sun, on the arid plains
Of the west; the men who endure the